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  1. Do Bilingual Children Tell Stories the Same Way in Both Languages?

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, November 2025, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Sveta Fichman, Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem, Minna Lipner, Carmit Altman

  2. Do Girls Learn Faster Than Boys? A Study of Early Language Development in Arabic

    Article • First Language, April 2025, SAGE Publications

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  3. Keeping Heritage Languages Alive: Family, Culture, and Practical Choices in Language Maintenance

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, April 2025, Frontiers

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  4. Arabic Typical and Atypical Acquisition: Introduction to the Special Issue

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, March 2025, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem, Prof. Elinor Edward Saiegh-Haddad

  5. A story of stories: a large-scale cross-linguistic study of young children’s narratives

    Article • February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  6. We don’t have a family language policy: exploring overt and covert family language policy planning styles

    Article • Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, October 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Rose, Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  7. Mother's Education and Home Language Affect Morphology Acquisition in Bilinguals and Monolinguals

    Article • Languages, September 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  8. The Impact of Ethnic Identity on Language Attitudes

    Article • Journal of Language Identity & Education, September 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  9. Culture-specific heritage language vocabulary and collective identity among three generations of Mountain Jews

    Article • Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, August 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  10. The Emergence of Verb Patterns in Arabic in Children With Developmental Language Disorder Compared to Children With Typical Development

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, July 2024, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem, Prof. Elinor Edward Saiegh-Haddad

  11. Causal Relations and Cohesive Strategies in the Narratives of Heritage Speakers of Russian in Their Two Languages

    Article • Languages, July 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  12. The effect of language attitudes on proficiency in two heritage languages of Mountain Jews in Israel and the US

    Article • International Journal of the Sociology of Language, July 2024, De Gruyter

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  13. Linear and nonlinear processing of Hebrew templatic words: the role of metalinguistic awareness

    Article • Applied Psycholinguistics, July 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  14. The Emergence and Development of Palestinian Arabic Lexicon and Morphosyntax From 18 to 36 Months: A Communicative Development Inventory Study

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, June 2024, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem, Lina Hashoul-Essa

  15. Language exposure practices among Hasidic Yiddish-Hebrew speaking children – in support of Yiddish vitality in Israel

    Article • Ampersand, June 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  16. The vocabulary of Yiddish-Hebrew speaking children – A CDI study

    Article • Ampersand, June 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  17. Identifying developmental language disorder (DLD) in multilingual children: A case study tutorial

    Article • International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, May 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  18. The Role of Age Variables in Family Language Policy

    Article • Languages, April 2024, MDPI AG

    Karen Rose, Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  19. Impact of Task Complexity and Bilingualism on Narrative Structure in Bilingual Kindergarten Children

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, February 2024, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Sveta Fichman, Carmit Altman, Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem, Minna Lipner

  20. Comprehension of who- and which-questions in monolingual and bilingual acquisition: Explicating the difficulty of set restriction

    Article • International Journal of Bilingualism, December 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  21. Family language policy and vocabulary of bilingual children across different ages

    Article • Ampersand, October 2023, Elsevier

    Karen Rose, Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  22. Parental reports on the lexicon of children from diverse bilingual populations

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, August 2023, Frontiers

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  23. Sociolinguistics in Israel

    Article • June 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  24. Hebrew-L2 speakers process auditory templatic words through their L1 processing mechanism with awareness of L2

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, June 2023, Frontiers

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  25. Emergence of verb-pattern morphology in young Arabic speakers: morphological and semantic features

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, May 2023, Frontiers

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  26. An approach to differentiating bilingualism and language impairment

    Article • April 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  27. Text complexity and variety factors in narrative retelling and narrative comprehension among Arabic-speaking preschool children

    Article • First Language, February 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  28. Heritage language maintenance and shift of three languages across three generations of Mountain Jews in Israel

    Article • Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, October 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  29. Parent Questionnaires in Screening for Developmental Language Disorder Among Bilingual Children in Speech and Language Clinics

    Article • Frontiers in Education, June 2022, Frontiers

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  30. The impact of language dominance on Russian-Hebrew bilingual children’s narrative production

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, May 2022, John Benjamins

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem, Carmit Altman

  31. Profiling Bilingual Children: Using Monolingual Assessment to Inform Diagnosis

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, April 2022, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem, Karen Rose, Carmit Altman

  32. The differential impact of age of onset of bilingualism and language exposure for bilingual children with DLD and ASD

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, December 2021, John Benjamins

    Dr Natalia Meir, Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  33. Using a monolingual screening test for assessing bilingual children

    Article • Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, November 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  34. Heritage Languages in Israel

    Article • October 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  35. Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings

    Article • October 2021, John Benjamins

    Kleanthes Grohmann, Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  36. Introduction

    Article • October 2021, John Benjamins

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  37. Crosslinguistic Influence (CLI) of Lexical Breadth and Depth in the Vocabulary of Bilingual Kindergarten Children – A Bilingual Intervention Study

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, September 2021, Frontiers

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  38. Perceptions of identity, language abilities and language preferences among Russian-Hebrew and English-Hebrew bilingual children and their parents

    Article • Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  39. Story Grammar Elements and Mental State Terms in the Expression of Enabling Relations in Narratives of Bilingual Preschool Children

    Article • Discourse Processes, September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  40. Vocabulary Gains in Bilingual Narrative Intervention

    Article • Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, January 2021, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr Maria Adelaida Restrepo, Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem, Pe'er Ahituv Shlomo, Carmit Altman

  41. The development of English as a heritage language: The role of chronological age and age of onset of bilingualism

    Article • First Language, June 2020, SAGE Publications

    Karen Rose, Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  42. The linguistic expression of causal relations in picture-based narratives: A comparative study of bilingual and monolingual children with TLD and DLD

    Article • First Language, March 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  43. Vocabulary, Metalinguistic Awareness and Language Dominance Among Bilingual Preschool Children

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, October 2018, Frontiers

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  44. 30. SLI in bilingual development: How do we approach assessment?

    Article • April 2018, De Gruyter

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  45. Variations in phonological working memory: The contribution of impaired representation and bilingual processing

    Article • Applied Psycholinguistics, September 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  46. Story grammar elements and causal relations in the narratives of Russian-Hebrew bilingual children with SLI and typical language development

    Article • Journal of Communication Disorders, September 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  47. Independent and Combined Effects of Socioeconomic Status (SES) and Bilingualism on Children’s Vocabulary and Verbal Short-Term Memory

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, August 2017, Frontiers

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  48. Language impairment in bilingual children

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, July 2017, John Benjamins

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem, Dr George Pontikas, Theo Marinis

  49. Language Impairment in Bilingual Children

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, July 2017, John Benjamins

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem, Dr George Pontikas, Theo Marinis

  50. Quantitative and qualitative differences in the lexical knowledge of monolingual and bilingual children on the LITMUS-CLT task

    Article • Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, May 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  51. Noun and verb knowledge in monolingual preschool children across 17 languages: Data from Cross-linguistic Lexical Tasks (LITMUS-CLT)

    Article • Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, April 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Anna Gavarró, Dr Svetlana Kapalková, Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  52. Bilingual Landscape of the Contemporary World

    Article • August 2016, Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  53. Disentangling SLI and bilingualism using sentence repetition tasks: the impact of L1 and L2 properties

    Article • International Journal of Bilingualism, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem, Dr Natalia Meir

  54. Parent report of early lexical production in bilingual children: a cross-linguistic CDI comparison

    Article • International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, May 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  55. A CDI study of bilingual English-Hebrew children – frequency of exposure as a major source of variation

    Article • International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, May 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  56. Bi-directional cross-linguistic influence in bilingual Russian-Hebrew children

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, May 2016, John Benjamins

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem, Dr Natalia Meir

  57. How do 5-year-olds understand questions? Differences in languages across Europe

    Article • First Language, April 2016, SAGE Publications

    Uli Sauerland, Prof. Dr. Jurate Ruzaite, Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  58. The Challenges of Diaspora Migration

    Article • April 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  59. Disentangling bilingualism from SLI: Dissociating exposure and input

    Article • Bilingualism Language and Cognition, March 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  60. Diagnostic accuracy of repetition tasks for the identification of specific language impairment (SLI) in bilingual children: evidence from Russian and Hebrew

    Article • International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, March 2016, Wiley

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  61. 5. Sentence Repetition

    Article • December 2015, Channel View Publications, Ltd.

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  62. Introduction

    Article • December 2015, Channel View Publications, Ltd.

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  63. Macrostructure, microstructure, and mental state terms in the narratives of English–Hebrew bilingual preschool children with and without specific language impairment

    Article • Applied Psycholinguistics, December 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem, Carmit Altman

  64. Ratings of age of acquisition of 299 words across 25 languages: Is there a cross-linguistic order of words?

    Article • Behavior Research Methods, August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem, Anna Gavarró, Dr Svetlana Kapalková

  65. A large-scale cross-linguistic investigation of the acquisition of passive

    Article • Language Acquisition, May 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Angeliek van Hout van Hout, Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem, Anna Gavarró

  66. Sentence Repetition

    Article • April 2015, JSTOR

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  67. Introduction

    Article • April 2015, JSTOR

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  68. Children's production of relative clauses in Palestinian Arabic: Unique errors and their movement account

    Article • Lingua, March 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  69. The Assignment of Gender in L2 Hebrew: The Role of the L1 Gender System

    Article • January 2015, Brill

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  70. Language exposure, ethnolinguistic identity and attitudes in the acquisition of Hebrew as a second language among bilingual preschool children from Russian- and English-speaking backgrounds

    Article • January 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  71. Family language policies, reported language use and proficiency in Russian – Hebrew bilingual children in Israel

    Article • Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, November 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  72. Language proficiency and executive control in bilingual children

    Article • Bilingualism Language and Cognition, February 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  73. Between L2 and SLI: inflections and prepositions in the Hebrew of bilingual children with TLD and monolingual children with SLI

    Article • Journal of Child Language, November 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  74. The Assignment of Gender in L2 Hebrew: The Role of the L1 Gender System

    Article • Brill s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, January 2012, Brill

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  75. The development of L1 Russian tense-aspect morphology in Russian-Hebrew sequential bilinguals

    Article • January 2012, De Gruyter

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  76. Introduction: Bilingual children with SLI – the nature of the problem

    Article • Bilingualism Language and Cognition, December 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  77. Verb Inflections as Indicators of Bilingual SLI: Qualitative Vs. Quantitative Measurements

    Article • September 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  78. The impact of internal and external factors on linguistic performance in the home language and in L2 among Russian-Hebrew and Russian-German preschool children

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, July 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem, Natalia Gagarina

  79. Instructive bilingualism: Can bilingual children with specific language impairment rely on one language in learning a second one?

    Article • Applied Psycholinguistics, March 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  80. Current Issues in Generative Hebrew Linguistics

    Article • December 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  81. Current issues in generative Hebrew linguistics

    Article • January 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  82. The interaction between question formation and verbal morphology in the acquisition of Hebrew

    Article • January 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  83. 6. Subject-object asymmetry in children's comprehension of sentences containing logical words

    Article • January 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  84. The autonomous contribution of syntax and pragmatics to the acquisition of the Hebrew definite article

    Article • January 2005, John Benjamins

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  85. The emergence of grammar: early verbs and beyond

    Article • Journal of Child Language, November 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  86. Review of Adamson (1996): Communication Development During Infancy

    Article • Pragmatics & Cognition, October 2001, John Benjamins

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  87. Checking on CHECKING

    Article • January 2001, John Benjamins

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  88. The Acquisition of Subordination: From Preconjunctionals to Later Use

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  89. Subject use and the acquisition of verbal agreement in Hebrew

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  90. An Approach to Differentiating Bilingualism and Language Impairment

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  91. Subject use and the acquisition of verbal agreement in Hebrew

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  92. The Nature of Exposure and Input in Early Bilingualism

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem

  93. Immigrant Speech

    Article • De Gruyter

    Professor Sharon Armon-Lotem